Draw closer this week #2: “Where can I go from your Spirit?”

Psalm 139: 1-18:

You have searched me, Lord, and you know me.
You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely.
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.
Where can I go from your Spirit?  Where can I flee from your presence?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea,
even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,”
even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Psalm 139For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them!
Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.

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  • What does this reveal about God’s desire for a relationship with us?______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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About Rob Beaird

Christ follower, husband, father, grandfather, son, brother, retired Technology Services Engineer for Ricoh-USA.
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1 Response to Draw closer this week #2: “Where can I go from your Spirit?”

  1. This verse really stood out for me: “How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would out number the grains of sand—when I awake, I am still with you.” You know, you have to REALLY know somebody to discern their very thoughts. Psalm 139 has always shown me how much God knows and loves me. However, for the first time, I read this and realized how well David knew God. He knew his Father’s heart.

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